Four Days to Portland!

In exactly four days, Dave and I will be saying goodbye to T-Town and heading to Portland for TWO WHOLE DAYS!  Initially, this grown-up getaway was going to take us even further south, to sunny southern California.  But our air miles proved much less valuable than first thought, and coordinating flights and child-care was proving overwhelming.  But this mom and dad would not be swayed.  We opted for somewhere closer, got the dog scheduled to ship off to Grampa's, got big sister scheduled to come home from college for the weekend to look after little sister and are now ready to go.  It may not be the sunny destination we were dreaming of, and yes we may encounter rain and wind, but we will be doing so without having to be responsibile for anyone but ourselves.   Instead we will be eating, drinking and making merry.  Okay--we may not be doing too much drinking, for if I do I won't be doing any merry-making, just a lot of sleeping, and snoring, and probably drooling.

Here's what's on the itinerary:  Should we choose to follow it:

1. Sleeping in late....you know, until at least 7:00 (hopefully)

2. Going to Peets for fancy lattes

3. Eating, at least once, at the Lucky Labrador Pub (What can I say, we'll need to get our "dog-fix")

4. Drinking wine (okay maybe at least one IPA, it is Portland, after all) but really probably mostly just      wine....... and probably not that much either... See above

5.  Cruising on two-wheels

6.  Shopping at Title-9 Sports

7.  Perusing a bike shop or two 

Here's what we will NOT be doing:

Standing in the cold, outside of Voo-Doo Donuts....

Been there, done that....and for what?  A maple bar with bacon?  Why would they ruin the perfect donut with bacon?  No thanks.   I'll just wait til I get home and go to the best: Pao's

So the count-down has begun.  And I am excited.  It's not often, it's not even remotely often, that Mr. Larson and I get away together.  Just the two of us.  And I feel like Christmas is coming.  They way I felt when I was a kid and Christmas was coming.  Not like now, as an adult, when you just want it all to be over.  And then, like that, it is.